Jeremiah 51:42
The sea is come up over Babylon; With the roaring of its waves is she covered.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 18:4The snares of death encompassed me; The floods of destruction filled me with dismay;
Psalms 42:7Deep calleth for deep at the noise of thy waterfalls; All thy waves and billows have gone over me!
Psalms 93:3The floods, O LORD! lift up, The floods lift up their voice; The floods lift up their roaring!
Isaiah 8:8And he shall pass through Judah, overflowing and spreading; Even to the neck shall he reach, And his stretched-out wings shall fill the whole breadth of thy land, O Immanuel!
Ezekiel 26:3therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, O Tyre, and I will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.
Daniel 7:2Daniel spake and said:—I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven burst forth upon the great sea.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 51:2-59
The Judgment of Babylon. ( b. c. 595.) 1 Thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind; 2 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about. 3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her… Read the whole commentary →